A play in two acts centred on Winnie, a woman buried up to her waist in a mound of earth under a blazing sun. Cheerful and talkative, she goes through her daily routine with the contents of her handbag, while her husband Willie, mostly out of sight, answers rarely.
Winnie clings to small pleasures and old phrases to keep despair away. The play is both comic and moving, and is admired for its portrait of courage, habit and optimism in difficult circumstances.